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Good times. Photo is s<\/em>tate’s exhibit. <\/em><\/p>\n It seems the courts have lost track <\/a>of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 18-year-old punk charged with multiple felony counts<\/a>, including homicide, after he killed two people and wounded one at last summer’s BLM protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin sparked by the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Being a white boy and all, Rittenhouse was out on bail after Trump-loving, riot-inciting, election-fraud-lie-spewing attorney Lin Wood – who is now under investigation<\/a> for voting illegally in said election – raised $2 million to get him released. Kyle was so happy that, right after his arraignment on Jan. 5, he “demonstrated his carefree attitude,” in the words of prosecutors, by high-tailing it to a bar, drinking three beers – he was still 17 at the time but under the clearly wise tutelage of his mother – and getting his picture taken with a bunch of “Proud Boys” while flashing <\/a>white power signs and wearing a “Free As Fuck” t-shirt, because he’s just that classy a guy. But when Kenosha detectives recently went<\/a> to what was Rittenhouse’s address, a man said he’d been renting the apartment since Dec. 15 and Kyle was nowhere in sight, having inexplicably declined to correct his address on a document he signed Jan. 22.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, prosecutors asked a judge to issue a new arrest warrant charging Rittenhouse with violating bail conditions; they also asked bail be upped by $200,000, noting it’s rare for a homicide defendant to be left to roam free and they’d kinda like to know where he is. Rittenhouse\u2019s attorney countered <\/a>in a motion that death threats have driven Rittenhouse and his wonderful mom into a “safe house,” he offered to give prosecutors the address if they’d keep it secret, but they refused. Online, some argued <\/a>Kyle fits right into the “big tent” GOP of bigots, insurrectionists, neo-Nazis, grifters, liars and rapists. Many also noted that, while it’s a tad alarming Kyle’s just out there, it would be way scarier if he’d been charged <\/a>with, say, selling individual cigarettes or holding up a cell phone or playing with a toy gun or riding a bike without a light or turning a car without signalling or running or sleeping or babysitting or passing <\/a>a baby or taking the subway or knocking on a door after running out of gas or carrying a bag or stealing a bag of chips or having a mental health crisis or wearing a hoodie or, you know, living while black, <\/a>so there’s that.<\/p>\n
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